GuiA

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by GuiA 6y ago
Ah yes dang. Users who are otherwise constructive members of the site break the rules only on CCP related threads. Not only that, but their rule breaking is only penalized in the minutes after which they post, only to slowly return to the m
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by GuiA 6y ago
It always pains me greatly to read writers from times past about social issues whose voice rings distinctly true today still. Because it means that understanding the problem is completely uncorrelated to being able to do anything about it.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Check out Célestin Freinet too (also untranslated in English AFAIK)
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by GuiA 6y ago
The question isn't whether you can add a cover to the product after the fact, it's whether you can trust a switch on a product to do what the manufacturer says it does.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Yes, what you describe is trivial - and it would be similarly trivial to design a module that appears to respect the switch (regardless of Linux/Windows) and yet records things surreptitiously, only to offload it at a later date. Remem
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by GuiA 6y ago
I had a laptop with a physical switch for WiFi/Bluetooth in 2006 or so (with a matching orange/blue light that would turn up when you toggled it). The problem was that this was actually all done by a software driver - when I boote
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by GuiA 6y ago
From a past update: "I launched the site in July 9, 2009 from a small kitchen in Botoșani, Romania." https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/ I suspect that's the kitchen :) My o
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by GuiA 6y ago
There are anecdotal reports of doctors/nurses able to pick up certain typical "illness smells" from their patients. Not sure if it's ever been studied more in depth.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Caffenol is a pretty popular technique, you can find many detailed posts online comparing it with other developers. I've used it a few times in a pinch when traveling, it's nice. Unfortunately I've never been able to find a f
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by GuiA 6y ago
It all depends what kind of work you do. I do things that touch embedded hardware and graphics and frequently find myself doing exactly the sort of things you described. If you miss it, it's certainly not gone :) (and I made a consciou
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by GuiA 6y ago
I originally posted this (in 2013! reposted today prompted by HN's second chance pool) because it struck me how, with very few modifications, this exact article could be republished today. I find it fascinating that we can be having th
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Personal computers: does everyone need to learn programming? (1984)(nytimes.com)
56 points by GuiA 6y ago|25 comments
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by GuiA 6y ago
You could theme your phpBB forum, install mods, add lots of fun flourishing touches (like custom ranks), etc. Some forums displayed avatars and post counts, others didn't . All that made every single phpBB forum feel like its own disti
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by GuiA 6y ago
I played similar games when I ran forums, but really you're just shuffling the problem around. Bored trolls/extreme ideologues will be delighted to play cat and mouse with your measures, and will feel particularly proud of themsel
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by GuiA 6y ago
> I run an internet writing forum that has also suffered over the years despite being a relatively massive forum in its hey day. What changed? I think these are just the affects of the smartphone era. I wonder what the phpBB of social
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by GuiA 6y ago
https://distill.pub is such a platform for articles about machine learning https://explorabl.es is a more general hub. > especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and devel
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by GuiA 6y ago
> Aren't they a source of pernicious American influence on this generation's youth? Many countries have broadcast laws around a maximum amount of foreign programming (for one example amongst many, private French radios have
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by GuiA 6y ago
But you didn’t try anything to confirm/infirm this hypothesis?
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by GuiA 6y ago
Craftsmanship is most visible in mature open source projects who have reached certain stability when it comes to features. The role of developers on those projects is more akin to stewards, watching over it for the current and next generati
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by GuiA 6y ago
> we see that on average 57 percent, 64 percent, and 67 percent of children born survive to age 15 years among hunter-gatherers, forager-horticulturalists, and acculturated hunter-gatherers. https://condensedscience.wordpres
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by GuiA 6y ago
My definition for scripting language is even more basic than the other commenters here - a scripting language is one where the user executes the source file (the script). Of course the system is free to do whatever it wants under the hood
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by GuiA 6y ago
There should be some sort of UNESCO World Heritage Open Source Software selection, and SQLite should definitely be in it.
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by GuiA 6y ago
The variety of fossils we have is stunning, but even that is a non representative, femtoscopic sample of all organisms that ever lived.
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by GuiA 6y ago
But you can pay Sony $60 a year for the privilege of getting your PS4 to update everything in the background on its own! Clearly the free market provides the best player experience.
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by GuiA 6y ago
I’m going to call evolution “Mr. R&D.” When he finds a problem, Mr. R&D tests things out in different ways to come up with a solution. But sometimes those solutions have unforeseen consequences. So here we go! (not quoting every o
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by GuiA 6y ago
Were systems built that embody this kind of design, or is this purely speculative?
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by GuiA 6y ago
Even then, it's an uneven distribution. Homeschooled in Montana? Probably. Homeschooled in the Bay Area? Probably not.
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by GuiA 6y ago
As a photographer, i can guarantee that spending 10 hours on preparing an exhibition will be much more useful than 10 hours “engaging” on Instagram. A gallery show will bring people to you and your work, let you sell prints, collect emails,
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by GuiA 6y ago
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more people talk about source hut ( https://sr.ht ) on HN. If you're a github/gitlab/git* user it does all the things you want, has a lightweight text focused interface, it&#x2
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by GuiA 6y ago
Sorry tangential, but what's this frog neural network project? Looks fun!

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